Partnerships Lead Southern Europe

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Sales

This role is for an AWS Partnerships Lead for Southern Europe, responsible for developing and scaling the AWS co-sell strategy. The individual will build relationships with AWS teams, develop joint business plans, drive pipeline, and accelerate the adoption of Anthropic's AI technology through AWS. The role requires experience in cloud partnerships, enterprise sales, and working in ambiguous, build-from-scratch environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the AWS co-sell and GTM motion across Southern Europe, including France, Italy, Spain, and surrounding markets
  2. Build and maintain trusted executive and field-level relationships across AWS partner and sales organizations in the region
  3. Develop and execute joint business plans, co-selling strategies, and enablement programs tailored to Southern Europe markets
  4. Develop pipeline, contribute to acceleration, and drive revenue through AWS, ensuring regional forecast and target attainment
  5. Collaborate closely with Anthropic’s sales, partner marketing, product marketing, and international partnerships teams to align regional execution with overall strategy

Skills

Required

  • Strategic partnerships experience
  • Cloud partnerships experience
  • Enterprise technology sales experience
  • Direct experience partnering with or working within a hyperscaler (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
  • Proven experience building cloud partnerships from scratch
  • Knowledge of the Southern Europe enterprise landscape and its operating cloud ecosystem
  • Experience managing pipeline and revenue targets
  • Strong understanding of partner and customer economics
  • Comfortable in ambiguous environments and highly action- and build-oriented
  • English and French proficiency

Nice to have

  • 7+ years of enterprise technology experience
  • Significant time spent in roles blending SaaS sales and partnerships
  • Deep knowledge of AWS specifically
  • Experience in a late-stage growth or early-stage startup
  • Experience working with developer-first companies
  • Exposure to AI/ML or LLMs
  • Management consulting experience
  • Italian or Spanish language proficiency
  • Strong ability to navigate complex partner organizations and identify leverage points to influence senior leaders

What the JD emphasized

  • build the playbook for how Anthropic and AWS go to market together in the region — from the ground up
  • work with limited local scaffolding — which is the point
  • define the motion
  • turn a nascent partnership into a material revenue engine
  • high-impact, zero-to-one role
  • thrives in ambiguity
  • deep cloud partnerships DNA
  • commercialize frontier AI safely and responsibly
  • Experience in building cloud partnerships from scratch, establishing initiatives without a large local team or pre-existing playbook
  • Comfortable in ambiguous environments and highly action- and build-oriented